Taxon details

Family: Cheiracanthiidae / Genus: Cheiracanthium

Cheiracanthium approximatum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2020-10-29
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023275]
  • Distribution: Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Laos to China, Taiwan, Philippines
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Taxonomic references
Cheiracanthium approximatum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885b: 26, pl. 2, f. 18 (Df).
Cheiracanthium adjacens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885b: 24, pl. 2, f. 17 (m only; misidentified per Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020: 341).
Cheiracanthium adjacensoides Song, Chen & Hou, 1990: 427, f. 1-4 (Dmf).
Cheiracanthium paradjacens Chen & Gao, 1990: 148, f. 186a-d (mf, same types as C. adjacensoides).
Cheiracanthium payateus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 156, f. 87a-h (Dm).
Cheiracanthium tigbauaensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 161, f. 91a-f, 92a-d (Dmf).
Cheiracanthium tingilium Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 164, f. 93a-e (Df).
Cheiracanthium bikakapenalcolium Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 165, f. 94a-e (Df).
Cheiracanthium hugiscium Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 167, f. 95a-e (Df).
Cheiracanthium adjacensoides Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 412, f. 241E-F, 243C-D (mf).
Cheiracanthium insulanum Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: 228, f. 272-279 (mf, S of C. bikakapenalcolium, C. hugiscium, C. payateum, C. tigbauaense and C. tingilium; misidentified per Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020: 341).
Cheiracanthium insulanum Chen & Huang, 2004: 56, f. 1A-D, 2A-C (mf, S of Cheiracanthium adjacensoides = C. paradjacens; misidentified per Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020: 341).
Cheiracanthium insulanum Jäger & Dankittipakul, 2010: 24, f. 1-3 (f; misidentified per Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020: 341).
Cheiracanthium insulanum Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 340, f. 245A-D (mf; misidentified per Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020: 341).
Cheiracanthium adjacensoides Yin et al., 2012: 1044, f. 542a-e (mf).
Cheiracanthium insulanum Chen & Huang, 2012: 19, f. 5A-F, pl. 2A-B (mf; misidentified per Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020: 341).
Cheiracanthium insulanum Hu et al., 2019: 33, f. 1a-f (mf; misidentified per Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020: 341).
Cheiracanthium approximatum Zhang, Yu & Li, 2020: 64 (species inquirenda).
Cheiracanthium approximatum Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020: 341, f. 1, 2a-c,e, 4-17, 25-31 (mf, S of Chiracanthium adjacensoides = paradjacens, removed from S of C. insulanum, contra Chen & Huang, 2004: 56; S of C. bikakapenalcolium, C. hugiscium, C. payateum, C. tigbauaense and C. tingilium, all removed from S of C. insulanum, contra Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001).
Cheiracanthium adjacensoides Esyunin & Zamani, 2020: 1313 (confirming removement from S of Cheiracanthium insulanum and all synonyms proposed by Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020: 341, with exception of C. tigbauaense).
Cheiracanthium tigbauaensis Esyunin & Zamani, 2020: 1318 (removed from S of C. adjacensoides; not accepted here, because Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020: 341 is not taken into account).
References

Barrion, A. T. & Litsinger, J. A. (1995). Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, 700 pp., 16 pls. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chen, X. E. & Gao, J. C. (1990). The Sichuan farmland spiders in China. Sichuan Science and Technology Publishing House, Chengdu, 226 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chen, S. H. & Huang, W. J. (2004). A newly recorded spider of the genus Cheiracanthium (Araneae, Clubionidae) from Taiwan. BioFormosa 39: 55-59. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chen, S. H. & Huang, W. J. (2012). Miturgidae (Arachnida: Araneae). pp. 5-30, 101-102, 114-125. In: Chen, S. H. & Huang, W. J. (eds.) The spider fauna of Taiwan. Araneae. Miturgidae, Anyphaenidae, Clubionidae. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 130 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2001). Forest spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]). Brill, Leiden, 591 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Esyunin, S. L. & Zamani, A. (2020). ‘Conundrum of esoterica’: on the long-forgotten genus Eutittha Thorell, 1878, with new taxonomic considerations in Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae). Journal of Natural History 54(19-20): 1293-1323. doi:10.1080/00222933.2020.1781950 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, Y. L., Liu, J., Li, H. C. & Yu, H. (2019). Redescription of two newly recorded Cheiracanthium species from Guizhou (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae). Journal of Guizhou Education University 34(12, 2018): 31-36. [published in June 2019] doi:10.13391/j.cnki.issn.1674-7798.2018.12.007 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. & Dankittipakul, P. (2010). Clubionidae from Laos and Thailand (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 2730: 23-43. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2730.1.2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M. & Simmons, Z. M. (2020). Redescription of two west Himalayan Cheiracanthium (Aranei: Cheiracanthiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 29(3): 339-347. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.3.07 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1885b). Araneidea. In: Scientific results of the second Yarkand mission; based upon the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka, Ph. D. Government of India, Calcutta, 115 pp., 2 pls. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.119960 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Chen, X. E. & Hou, J. W. (1990). A new species of the genus Chiracanthium from China (Araneae: Clubionidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 15: 427-430. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha, 1590 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. S., Yu, H. & Li, S. Q. (2020). New cheiracanthiid spiders from Xishuangbanna rainforest, southwestern China (Araneae, Cheiracanthiidae). ZooKeys 940: 51-77. doi:10.3897/zookeys.940.51802 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S. & Zhang, B. S. (2011). Spider Fauna of Henan: Arachnida: Araneae. Science Press, Beijing, 558 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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2020-10-29 New taxonomic reference entry Esyunin & Zamani, 2020 n/a
2020-10-29 New taxonomic reference entry Esyunin & Zamani, 2020 n/a
2020-09-30 Species synonymy Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020 Cheiracanthium hugiscium synonymized with Cheiracanthium approximatum
2020-09-30 Species synonymy Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020 Cheiracanthium bikakapenalcolium synonymized with Cheiracanthium approximatum
2020-09-30 Species synonymy Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020 Cheiracanthium tingilium synonymized with Cheiracanthium approximatum
2020-09-30 Species synonymy Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020 Cheiracanthium tigbauanense synonymized with Cheiracanthium approximatum
2020-09-30 Species synonymy Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020 Cheiracanthium payateum synonymized with Cheiracanthium approximatum
2020-09-30 Species synonymy Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020 Cheiracanthium adjacensoides synonymized with Cheiracanthium approximatum
2020-09-30 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
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2020-09-30 New taxonomic reference entry O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885b n/a
2020-09-30 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020 n/a
2020-09-30 Species distribution update Marusik, Omelko & Simmons, 2020 n/a (Old value)
2020-06-12 New taxonomic reference entry Zhang, Yu & Li, 2020 n/a